A39690:216
A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing…
A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing the death of her dear and only son wherein the boundaries of sorrow are duly fixed, excesses restrained, the common pleas answered, and divers rules for the support of Gods afflicted ones prescribed / by J.F.
London: printed for Robert Boulter, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Surely the Lord of time, is the best Judge of time; and in nothing do we more discover our folly, and rashness, ⟨p. 70⟩then in presuming to fix the times either of our comforts or troubles: as to our comforts, we never think they can come to soon, we would have them presently, whether the season be fit or not, as Numb. 12. 13. Heal her now Lord. O let it be done speedily; we are in post hast for our comforts; and as for our afflictions, we never think they come late enough; not at this time Lord, rather at any other time than now.
But its good to leave the timing both of the one and other to him, whose works are all beautiful in their seasons, and never doth any thing in an improper time.
7. Consid. Call to mind in this day of trouble, the Covenant you have made with God, and what you solemnly promised him in the day you took him for your God.
It will be very seasonable and useful for thee Christian at this time to reflect upon those transactions, and the frame of thy heart in those days, when an heavier load of Sorrow pressed thy heart, than thou now feelest.